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The Supreme Court of the USA— Throwback to Dark Ages

The five conservative men on the Supreme Court seem incapable of handling 21st century US and world problems. They vote on the opposite side of the vast majority of Americans on: contraception & birth control, progressive taxing of the super-rich, women rights in general and women votes on SCOTUS in particular.

This seems to be caused by their knee-jerk responses caused by: belief in Ayn Rand’s laissez-faire capitalism & ‘virtue of selfishness’; almost total scientific illiteracy; a lot of plain old illiteracy; and anti-feminism. Although one cannot say five old white men biased against anyone not like them, since there is a (Rand-motivated?) not-white man in their corner. But given the results of their votes to personalize corporations, allow unlimited political money from the rich and allow states to install voting restraints on the poor and/or black, they may be called racists.

Finally, and mainly, possibly never in our history has religion, in particular the Catholic church and born-again Christians, been so powerful in the court. As suggested in the Daily KOS (Vyan, July 5, ’14), consider whether the SCOTUS decision would have been different if Hobby-Lobby were owned by a Muslim, Buddhist, Ba’hai, Sikh, Jewish, Amish, or Atheist “closely held” belief group and were to proclaim they no longer had to abide by, respect, hire or provide services for Pro-Life Christians? Also, a couple of these groups have in their literature that if non-believers are offered conversion to their religion, and refuse, they may be killed. No way this, Sharia law, or any of their “closely held” beliefs would be sanctioned by this SCOTUS. It is clearly a court decision based on and for THEIR Christian religion.

It’s beginning to look like these members of SCOTUS constitute the greatest threat to our Democracy since our founding.

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